Is anyone else in here from California?- can you tell me about the immigration problems there?

Question

I am truly curious how affected californians are by illegal immigration. I am also from cali. Can you tell me your experiences?

Answer 1

I have lived in so cal all of my life. Sitting Pretty must be well insulated form the problem or just doesn't open her eyes. I used to live in Santa Ana Ca. I had my house broken into and robbed on 5 different occasions. The last time was in plain view of two of my neighbors as this illegal kicked out my front window to carry out my TV. Yes I know he was illegal because he left fingerprints.
I had to keep the battery to my pick up in the garage to keep it from being stolen (learned that one the hard way too) This was well over 20 years ago before the first amnesty. I finally had to move. Last time I visited that neighborhood everyone had steel bars on their windows and doors.
Where I live now the illegals have taken over a city block. So bad is the problem the Police had to put in a sub-station just to try and keep a lid on things. Cops walk a beat in that neighborhood to try to foster good community relations so that at least some of the residents will report crimes to them. Gangs from LA have been seen there trying to recruit the young kids. I see them everywhere now..especially the moms with their little anchor babies. Katsulove is absolutely correct on the costs. Remember Cali tried to pass prop 187 in 1994 because of the huge drain on our economy.
I know many Americans with hispanic last names and I count them as close personal friends. Actually I married one and you should hear her talk. They don't like what they see any better than I do.

Answer 2

You know what is weird, is that I have lived 2 hrs north of the Mexican border all of my life, in Orange County which Im sure you may have heard is quite heavily populated with latinos in general. I can honestly tell you, regardless of the number of "thumbs down" that I get, that until I came into this forum had never realized what a problem Americans thought illegal immigrants were. Could be because Ive never experienced or witnessed first hand any displays of hatred or prejudice towards them. Or when I hear about what a drain they are on our Welfare system I always think of the time I worked for Social Services and when people are put on Welfare, they are then placed in a program called "Welfare to Work" which trains the welfare recipients to type up resumes and sends them out to interviews and such. They have three months to find a job and then their benefits, other than Medi-Cal are discontinued. But I can honestly tell you that the majority of participants in these classes where Caucasian and Asian. Sure there were hispanics as well, but they were outnumbered by the others. Anyways, what Im trying to say is that while I read the statistics and read that they are a big source of the drain in welfare and social security resources, when I step away from my computer and out into the real world, my world, I just dont see all the anger and protesting I see on here. Why is that?!

Answer 3

Schools are failing. Look up your old school, ranking and test scores as well as ESL demographics at www.greatschools.net.

1 out of 6 emergency rooms has closed, and Martin Luther King just went to reduced services and lost its pediatric ward.

It isn't great. Even if they paid taxes, they don't make enough money to cover even just their children's education costs much less cover what medicaire costs or other services. And even if the money tree provided funds to cover this (rather than about $1500 per native family in taxes per year in addition to what they would other wise pay) money is not schools nor trained teachers and the schools are way overcrowded, operating on 'year round' schedules commonly, and are tought in clasrooms of, in middle school, 40some kids per class by many teachers on emergency permits.

Education is a pit.

Stay where you are.

Answer 4

not California yet Texas... and we experience your soreness. we may be able to all thank Senator Kennedy for pushing this insanity by the Senate, yet I have hopes that it there'll be fireworks even as it hits the residing house. i purely can't understand why this Congress refuses to guard out southern and west coast borders. extremely, it boggles the recommendations.

Answer 5

The more than $10.1 billion in costs incurred by California taxpayers because of illegal aliens is composed of outlays in the following areas:

Education. Based on estimates of the illegal immigrant population in California and documented costs of K-12 schooling, Californians spend approximately $7.7 billion annually on education for illegal immigrant children and for their U.S.-born siblings. Nearly 15 percent of the K-12 public school students in California are children of illegal aliens.

Health care. Uncompensated medical outlays for health care provided to the state's illegal alien population amount to about $1.4 billion a year.

Incarceration. The cost of incarcerating illegal aliens in California's prisons and jails amounts to about $1.4 billion a year (not including related law enforcement and judicial expenditures or the monetary costs of the crimes that led to their incarceration).
State and local taxes paid by the unauthorized immigrant population go toward offsetting these costs, but they do not come near to matching the expenses. The total of such payments can generously be estimated at about $1.6 billion per year.

The fiscal costs of illegal immigration do not end with these three major cost areas. The total costs of illegal immigration to the state's taxpayers would be considerably higher if other cost areas such as special English instruction, school feeding programs, or welfare benefits for American workers displaced by illegal alien workers were added into the equation.

While the primary responsibility for combating illegal immigration rests with the federal government, there are many measures that state and local governments can take to combat the problem. Californians should not be expected to assume this already large and growing burden from illegal immigration simply because businesses or other special interests benefit from being able to employ lower cost workers. The state must adopt measures to systematically collect information on illegal alien use of taxpayer-funded services and on where they are employed. Policies could then be pursued to hold employers financially accountable.

The state could also enter into a cooperative agreement with the federal government for training local law enforcement personnel in immigration law so that illegal immigrants apprehended for criminal activities may be turned over to immigration authorities for removal from the country. Similarly, local officials who have adopted "sanctuary" measures that shield illegal aliens from being reported to the immigration authorities should be urged to repeal them.

Answer 6

http://www.statemaster.com/graph/peo_est_num_of_ill_imm-people-estimated-number-illegal-immigrants

Estimated number of Illegal Immigrants: 2,209,000
Estimated number of Illegal Immigrants (per capita): 6.114 per 100 people

Answer 7

Well, we get the blunk of them here, and while I for one am open to new people coming to america, there are some who want to send ilegal immigratates back to there native contry, even if they've been here for years.... Some closed minded people are hating on immagrates.

Answer 8

If you want to know about immigration problems , ask an american indian what he thinks!